Logistics performed well on first early auction day

13 April 2018

Improving the daily service provision is one of the three priorities of Royal FloraHolland. To be able to deliver on time on peak days, Royal FloraHolland started auctioning flowers one hour earlier on Tuesday, 3 April 2018. The results obtained on that day were significantly better compared to the day after Easter in 2017 (April 18).

On Tuesday, 3 April 2018,
the flower auction started at 05:00. In total in Aalsmeer,
Naaldwijk and Rijnsburg, we processed around 9,000 more
transactions than on the day after Easter last year. Despite this
increase in transactions, we still managed to achieve good end
times. The number of orders delivered on time into boxes - the
handling time expressed in percentages - improved greatly at each
location.

The overview given
below presents the results achieved on Tuesday, 3 April 2018,
compared to the day after Easter in 2017 (April 18).

Yme Pasma, "These are
great results."

Yme Pasma (COO Royal
FloraHolland) spoke about the improved logistic performance. "We
work hard on improving our daily service provision to support our
customers to the best of our ability. These are great results that
we can be proud of. Of course, we shall try to be even better
during the coming early auction days."

Good to
know

Monday, 30 April 2018,
is the next early auction day. The remaining two this year are
Monday, May 7, and Tuesday, May 22. We shall inform you of the
logistics results after these early auction days, too.